By virtually growing up on a farm, I learned how humans and other organisms interact and how those interactions affect the environment. Early on I saw the detritus left behind by those who came before us. Glass beer bottles and aluminum beer cans were a common sight...

I am not a scientist but I believe in investigation and discovery. The answers that science has revealed and continues to reveal about us, our world, and our universe, are awesome, in the original, old-fashioned meaning of that word. I don’t understand the...